Lecture notes in state and local public finance : (parts I and II)

Public finance seminar for phd students: -- The property tax -- Public production functions -- Program evaluation -- Public cost functions -- Cost indexes and pupil weights -- School district consolidation -- The demand for local public services -- State aid to local governments -- Bidding and sorting -- Property tax capitalization -- Housing hedonics -- School quality capitalization -- Sales taxes -- Property tax incidence -- Tax competition -- Tax rates and economic development -- Tax breaks and economic development -- Infrastructure -- Bond markets -- State and local public finance for master's degree students: -- Introduction -- The demand for local public services -- Local voting -- Local public service costs, 1 -- Local public service costs, 2 -- Local public revenue -- Property tax capitalization -- Property tax incidence -- Income and sales taxes -- Revenue from government monopoly -- User fees -- Infrastructure -- Municipal bonds, 1 -- Municipal bonds, 2 -- Economic development, 1 -- Economic development, 2 -- Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- State aid to education -- Educational accountabilitycontents.